Car-stove



(No Model.)

A. REESE. GAR STOVE.

110.269,325.- Pat'ented 1160.19, 1882.

PETERS. Phcxa-Lnhogmpher. Washmgwn. 0.1:4

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAM REESE, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,325, dated December 19, 1882.

Application filed July 24, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABRAM REESE, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Stoves; and Ido hereby declare that the followin gis afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal section of one end of a railway-car with my improvements shown partly in section. Fig. 2 is a view of the reservoir, the inclined perforated water-deiiector, and the stove, the stove and detlector being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a detail partially in section, showing the position of the valve in the Water-reservoir when elevated.

In Letters Patent No. 142,867, granted to me September 16, 1873, I have shown a carstove so arranged with relation to a reservoir of water and a valve that the crushing in or breaking of the shell of the car caused the valve to instantly open and discharge thecontents ofthe reservoirinto the stove, and thereby extinguish the fire. The devices described in said patent found their chief application in the circular stoves used for the consumption of coal.

The object of the present invention is to adapt the former invention to use with the oblong stoves used on some cars for burning wood, so that the water discharged from the reservoir by the'lifting of the valve due to the relaxation of the cord shall be evenly projected and uniformly distributed over the entire surface of the burning wood.

My invention accordingly consists in interposing between the reservoir and stove-top a double inclined deliector inclining from the middle downwardly toward the ends of the oblong stove, perforating the stove-top under it with a number of holes diverging in direction from the middle toward both ends of the stove, as hereinafter described and claimed.

A is a weed-burning stove, of the usual oblong shape, having smoke-pipe B. O is the air-chamber; D, the reservoir; c,the valve; f, the levers, and c' the cord for opening 'valve e in time of accident. These devices, being the subject of another application tiled herewith, need. not be specilically described, as they may be replaced by those shown in my said previous patent, to which reference is hereby made.

On top of stove A, inside the airchamber C, I fix a double inclined detlector, J, whose surfaces are planes inclining from the middle downwardly toward the two ends of the stove A. Deflector J, has numerous perforations e bored vertically. Under it the top of stove A has a number of holes, o, diverging gradually from the middle toward both ends of the stove. As in my other application, these holes o are ofa size increasing toward the outside, the outer holes being bored at such angle as to project the water to the far ends of the stove A. The water descending from the reservoir spreads over the deliector J, and, passing down and being distributed through the vertical holes therein, is projected downwardly and divergently toward the stove ends by means of the perforations o, at once extinguishing the fire.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, with the oblong stove A, water-reservoir, and air chamber, of the double inclined and perforated detlector J, substantially as set forth.

` 2. 'Ihe combination, with the oblong stove A, water-reservoir, and air-chamber, of the double inclined and perforated deiiector J and divergently-perforated stove-top, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' ABRAM REESE.

Witnesses:

T. J. MCTIGHE, THoMAs J. PATTERSON. 

